With over 25 years of experience working with business and government clients from around the world, Mr. Rhoda currently leads IBM's global Innovation that Matters and On Demand Business initiative for its field sales teams. Most recently, Jeff was Director, Global e-government responsible for IBM's e-government strategy, strategic alliances, and IBM's wide breadth of e-government solutions. Prior to leading the e-government initiative, Jeff was a member of the original executive team leading IBM's own transformation and played a key role in the development and implementation of ibm.com, IBM's direct channel combining the company's Web and Call Center capabilities. Jeff has met with hundreds of business and government leaders from around the world to discuss the opportunities presented by on demand business. He has also published several articles about the strategy, value, and the challenges of becoming, and operating as, an on demand business. He is a member of the advisory board of the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business Center for Excellence in Service, the corporate advisory board for the Robert H. Smith School Marketing Department and has been a guest lecturer at the American University School for Public Affairs and the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

John Somorjai is Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy of salesforce.com. He joined salesforce.com in 2005 and is responsible for mergers and acquisitions, investments and other strategic transactions for the company. John previously worked for Ingenio, as Vice President, Business Development, responsible for partnerships and sales activities; and for Oracle, as Senior Director, Corporate Development, responsible for strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, technology licensing, carve-outs and divestitures. John was previously Oracle's Corporate Counsel in the Corporate Legal Department. Prior to Oracle, John worked with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and Dewey Ballantine as an Associate Attorney. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Cliff Reeves is general manager of Microsoft's .NET Platform Strategy. Reeves has 30 years of experience in the software industry. He started with IBM Corp. as a programmer in England in 1971, and has held a wide range of software product development roles in the areas of database, application development, communication and messaging systems. He was an influential figure in the industry adoption of object technology and was most recently the senior vice president of Knowledge Management at Lotus Development Corp. in Cambridge, Mass. Reeves was closely involved with IBMs acquisition of Lotus Development in 1995, and he was responsible for rationalizing the Lotus-IBM product line after the acquisition. From 1996 through 1999, Reeves was vice president of Product Management for Lotus Communications Products, which include Notes and Domino. Reeves is married and has two daughters. He holds a masters degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University.

Russ Daniels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer for HP's Software business, where he sets and coordinates the technology strategy across HP's software portfolio of solutions for the Adaptive Enterprise - HP's vision of an organization in which business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change. Previously, he was General Manager of HP's application development organization and research and development manager of the software and systems development lab. Daniels has more than 25 years of industry experience specializing in Java, object-oriented programming, XML, enterprise management, and software development processes. Prior to joining HP, he spent 15 years at Apple Computer where he held a variety of developer-related positions and managed a website design and hosting business.

Eric Berridge is a principal and co-founder of Bluewolf Group. He has over 15 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies to successfully leverage enterprise software applications. Seeing the need for enterprise consulting services that were affordable, added measurable value, and were iterative, he co-founded Bluewolf with his partner, Michael Kirven, in 2000. At a time when Enterprise Consulting was dying a slow death-the Dot Com consultancies were shutting their doors-Bluewolf thrived, working with over 1,000 organizations to help them adopt On-Demand solutions, including such industry leaders as salesforce.com, Eloqua, Oracle, OpenAir, and Successfactors.

For over 25 years, Mikael Blaisdell has been closely involved with the strategy, process, people and technology of customer relationship management and retention. As a consultant, he has advised organizations across a wide range of types, locations and sizes on designing, building, re-engineering and optimizing their customer contact centers and programs. Working with support technology manufacturers, he has contributed to the design of tools and implementation procedures. He has trained support agents, supervisors and their managers, served on the boards of professional associations, done presentations on all aspects of CRM at industry gatherings, and written extensively on the subject for various publications for many years.

As a founder of Keychain Logic, the premier Software-as-a-Service revenue acceleration company, Ken Boasso brings over 20 years' experience in building highly successful strategic business development & sales teams to the emerging SaaS sector. With broad experience marketing and selling technology services and applications, Ken's teams have generated more than $3.2 billion in profitable new contract revenue for start-ups, companies in turnaround mode, and Fortune 100 enterprises. The principle author of Transforming the Software Industry, the Software & Information Industry Association's whitepaper on SaaS adoption and acceleration, Ken is also chairs the ISV Best Practices Committee in the SIIA's SaaS Executive Council. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Davis and a masters in business administration from St. Mary's College of California.

Christopher W. Cabrera, founder, president and CEO of Xactly™ Corporation (www.xactlycorp.com), the leader in automated on-demand sales compensation management, is a noted industry expert in issues relating to sales compensation, enterprise and on-demand delivery models, and co-author of the April 2006 Wiley Publishing book "Xactly Sales Compensation for Dummies." He is also a contributing writer to industry publications such as www.destinationcrm.com and www.crmguru.com. Mr. Cabrera has more than two decades of successful senior management experience at both early-stage and public companies, including enterprise and on-demand sales compensation environments, where he has managed sales, marketing, operations and business development.

Brett Caine's vision to make it simpler for individuals and businesses to use software-as-a-service (SAAS) to innovate and collaborate on the web is driving record performance for Citrix Online. Under his leadership and dedicated focus on meeting customer needs, revenues for the company's on-demand access and collaboration services have grown more than 65 percent year-over-year, and the products have been recognized as leaders in their categories, consistently winning awards for excellence. Prior to joining Citrix Online in 2003, Caine held numerous executive positions with leading software companies, including Openwave Systems and Clarify, Inc.

Gianpaolo Carraro leads the Solutions Architecture group, in the Architecture Strategy team at Microsoft. In his role, Gianpaolo drives thought leadership and strategic customer engagements on Service Oriented Architecture and Software as a Service. Prior to Microsoft, Gianpaolo was co-founder and chief architect of a Web services startup, prior to that Gianpaolo was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories. He is also a published author and a frequent speaker at major international IT conferences. You can learn more about him through his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/gianpaolo

Bernie has 13 years of professional experience with Deloitte & Touche, and is based in San Jose, California. He is currently serving in our National Office as a consultation resource, providing advice regarding technical accounting issues to audit teams, in areas such as share-based payments, derivative instruments and revenue recognition. Previously Bernie has been dedicated to provide merger and acquisition related services in the Technology industry. He spent more than six years of his career with Deloitte & Touche based in San Jose serving both large public and smaller private companies in the Technology industry. Bernie also spent time serving certain multinational clients in our London and South African offices. Bernie has a bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is also a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant.

Tim has more than 11 years of public accounting experience serving a wide range of clients, including publicly held and privately owned high-technology and software companies. He spent two years in Deloitte & Touche's London office on multinational clients with multiple market listings. He is thoroughly familiar with the complex issues these companies face, in particular, revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, and mergers and acquisitions. Tim has assisted companies with initial public offerings, secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debenture offerings. Tim earned his bachelor of science degree from Saint Mary's College.

John Dillon joined Navis as Chief Executive Officer in April 2002. Prior to Navis, Dillon was the CEO for Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) the leading supplier of online CRM. Previously, Dillon was CEO for Hyperion Solutions (NYSE: HYSL), a leading vendor of enterprise software for business reporting, analysis and planning. Dillon's professional history also includes management positions in sales and engineering for Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) and EDS (NYSE: EDS). Dillon earned a BS in Engineering from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He served on active duty in the United States Navy as an officer in the nuclear submarine service.

Stuart has more than 20 years experience with software product and service firms on a wide variety of technical platforms. Having experienced several different methods and approaches to quality software delivery, Stuart is pragmatic about implementing new processes and platforms and is focused on the business needs when designing the engineering team and/or solution required. At Induslogic, Stuart is responsible for the platforms, methods and infrastructure necessary to produce quality products when the team is geographically dispersed. Using the best of the latest open source and open source derived tools, Stuart has assembled an engineering platform that can be deployed anywhere to improve quality and speed of software engineering.

Abhijit Dubey is an Associate Principal with McKinsey and Company. He is one of the core leaders of McKinsey's North American High Tech Software and Services practices and advises leading software companies on a range of strategic issues. Abhijit has a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Colin Earl is the CEO of SaaS Wizard. He has 25 years' experience in the software industry, working at the executive level with Fortune 500 companies and startups to develop and deploy enterprise applications. His experiences at 3Com, IBM and Cisco led to him to found SaaS Wizard, which develops complete SaaS applications for other companies or helps them re-factor existing code to a pure web architecture. Its unique strength is an adaptive engine that provides upfront over 90% of the functionality needed by new applications. The result is a quality product in record time, based on code that has already been tested, debugged and is in production use worldwide. SaaS Wizard has been used to create products for Business Process Management, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance, CRM, and CoCom and these true multi-tenant applications run on Linux, Windows, Solaris or AIX servers. Colin holds an Engineering degree in Engineering from Imperial College, England.

Jim Geisman is Founder and Principal of MarketShare Inc. The firm was started in 1982 and, since 1987, has focused solely on software pricing. (More information can be found at the firm's website, www.SoftwarePricing.com.) Jim is an acknowledged expert in software pricing and has helped several hundred companies develop effective pricing strategies. His company is helping a number of established and emerging software companies make the transition to the on demand pricing model. Jim has been a co-founder, director, advisor or mentor to early stage companies. He sits on the Board of the Professional Pricing Society and is an advisor to the Entreprenuerial Leadership Program at Tufts University. He holds BS and MSEE degrees from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Michael Gregoire is the President and CEO of Taleo, the largest software on demand company in the world focused on Talent Management solutions. Taleo enables organizations of all sizes to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforce for improved business performance. Prior to Taleo, Mr. Gregoire served as an officer and Executive Vice President of enterprise software company PeopleSoft, responsible for its global Services business. The PeopleSoft Services business consisted of PeopleSoft Consulting, PeopleSoft Education, and PeopleSoft Hosting. Here, Gregoire led a workforce of more than 4,000 professionals and $2.3B in revenue.

Conor Halpin is founder and CEO of LeCayla Technologies who provide the world's first metering and billing solution for SaaS solutions. LeCayla offers the software equivalent of a utility meter allowing software vendors to measure and bill for usage on a per-use basis. Conor's specific expertise is in software marketing and pricing. He has led the sales and marketing effort for a number of international software companies including IONA Technologies, eSpatial Solutions and Marrakech. He holds a degree in software engineering from Trinity College Dublin.

Aaron Harris is responsible for managing the engineering organization at Intacct. Mr. Harris has more than 15 years of high-tech engineering experience in the areas of business applications and software development strategies. For the past five years at Intacct, he has helped build the world's first software-as-a-service architecture that delivers on-demand financial applications. Prior to joining Intacct, Mr. Harris was a member of Arthur Andersen's Developers' Coordination Council, where he evangelized emerging development technologies, established best practices and built infrastructure software development tools, focusing on Remote Data Access and XML technologies. Mr. Harris holds a master of science degree in information systems and a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Brigham Young University.

As Senior Director of Product Management, Jeff Hausman is responsible for developing and executing on Symantec's Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy for small and mid-sized business customers. Having joined Symantec via the VERITAS acquisition, Jeff previously led product marketing, strategy, and outbound marketing for Symantec Enterprise Vaultand VERITAS' storage and server management products. Jeff has spent over ten years with management services and infrastructure software, most recently as Vice President, Strategy & Alliances with Intersperse, an application and integration management company. Earlier in his career, Jeff held management positions with several technology companies and served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies at Booz Allen & Hamilton. Jeff received his undergraduate degree in Math & Economics from Claremont McKenna College and holds an MBA from Dartmouth College.

Don Hazell has over 23 years of experience taking technology companies into new markets and establishing leadership positions. During his six years at Weblogic and BEA Systems, Don held several vice president positions where he was responsible for strategic planning, new business penetration and major account management. Don helped build BEA's WebXpress Division, ISV Channels, and Central Region Field Organizations, where each of his teams grew revenue to over $75M while securing many of the largest sales contracts in BEA's history. Don's experience includes 12 years at Unisys Corporation and four years in the relational database and tools marketplace as a sales manager with Sybase and Ingres. Don received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Masters in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach.

Mark Hoffman joined Everdream as President, Chairman and CEO in July 2005 and brings over 25 years of proven management experience to the company. A pioneer in business-to-business e-commerce, Hoffman served as President, Chairman and CEO of Commerce One, one of the first companies to design infrastructure software that connected complex commercial processes into one centralized marketplace, from 1996 until 2004. The company is widely considered to have established the software standards for electronic commerce. Under his leadership, the company went public in 1999. Prior to joining Commerce One, Hoffman co-founded Sybase, Inc. in 1984. As President, Chairman and CEO, Hoffman managed the company's dramatic growth from a software start-up to the second largest relational database management system vendor and sixth largest independent software company in the world with annual revenues of nearly $1B in 1996.

Chris Hoffmann joined TripleTree in August 2005. Chris has over 18 years of experience as an operating executive, consultant and analyst in the technology industry. He is leveraging this experience at TripleTree in his role as Research Director as well as assisting on transaction activity in the areas of software and technology services. Chris joins the firm from Tier1 Research, where he was president and lead analyst for the enterprise software sector. At Tier1, Chris architected the growth of the firm toward a successful acquisition in June 2005 by The 451 Group. Prior to Tier1 Research, Chris held executive positions at Zamba Solutions, Gartner, GE Capital Consulting, IBM Global Services and a consulting firm which he founded. He has worked with the world's leading technology firms including IBM, Microsoft, Accenture, EDS and HP; has been quoted in numerous trade and industry publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Investors Business Daily; and is a frequent presenter at industry events. Chris earned a degree in marketing from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and has completed advanced studies through the University of Minnesota and Michigan State University. He currently serves as a Board Member for Lakeview Hospital and the Boy Scouts.

Sabrina Horn has 20 years management and public relations experience working with both start-up and Fortune 1000 technology companies. At Horn Group, Inc., she provides strategic consulting to select clients and guides the firm's operations, business development and long-term vision. Previously, Sabrina held senior management positions at Blanc & Otus and Edelman Public Relations, both in San Francisco. She holds a MS in Public Relations from Boston University and a BA in American Studies from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Sabrina has authored several research papers including "Public Relations for Emerging Growth Technology Companies," and "Advertising in the People's Republic of China." Sabrina is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and is a frequent speaker at technology and marketing industry conferences.

Brian Jacobs is a Founder and General Partner of Emergence. He has over 16 years of venture capital experience, a deep national network and an appreciation for the value of strong technology. He has strong experience in helping both consumer and business-oriented startups achieve their business goals. Prior to founding Emergence, Brian was an early General Partner at St. Paul Venture Capital. During his 10 years at St. Paul, Brian helped to grow the firm to one of the 15 largest venture investors in the country and led the Silicon Valley investing activities. He has prior venture capital experience with Security Pacific Venture Capital. Brian also worked for Raychem Corporation, where he developed and marketed advanced software and electronic components. He also has engineering and new product experience with RCA, Westinghouse, and Polaroid, and he holds several patents.

Robert Jurkowski joins Intacct as chief executive officer with more than 20 years of experience in global operations, sales and business strategy from leading software and business solution providers. Mr. Jurkowski most recently served as chief operating officer at Apriso, where he increased year-over-year revenue by 20 percent and doubled software sales. Prior, Mr. Jurkowski was COO of Silicon Energy, where he helped transform the company into a horizontal leader in enterprise energy management solutions for Global 2000 and large utilities. As vice president of worldwide field operations at RightWorks, he grew sales from zero to $100 million in two years. Mr. Jurkowski has also held executive roles at Aurum Software, a division of the Baan Company; Dun & Bradstreet Software; Oracle Corp; Automatic Data Processing; and Caterpillar. Mr. Jurkowski holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the University of Chicago.

Jeff Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies (www.thinkstrategies.com), a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies. THINKstrategies is a founding member of Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) SaaS Executive Council. Kaplan is also the founder of the Managed Service Showplace® (www.msp-showplace.com or www.thinkmsp.com) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace® (www.saas-showplace.com or www.thinksaas.com) free, online directories. THINKstrategies' online directories provide an easy-to-use listing of SaaS solutions by application and MSPs by service category, and extensive information and insight about industry best practices to help organizations fully leverage the growing array of SaaS solutions and managed services.

Karen oversees all product strategy, development, and marketing for WebEx WebOffice. She joins the company with more than two decades of senior-level management experience in the technology industry and previously served as vice president of marketing at Intranets.com, which was acquired by WebEx in September, 2005. Before Intranets.com, Karen created customer and partner value at NewsEdge Corporation, first as director of business development and later as director of engineering. At Phoenix Technologies, Karen managed large-scale custom development projects on behalf of major OEM customers. In the late 1980s Karen drove the development of networked products for large enterprises at Lotus Development Corporation. In 1979, Karen co-founded the Bit Bucket, a reseller providing systems and solutions to early personal computer adopters.

Dave Lipscomb is charged with driving the overall strategy of engineering and IT operations for NetSuite. He has been with NetSuite since its inception in 1998. As a high tech engineering veteran, Mr. Lipscomb leads a team of 85 engineers. Under his leadership, NetSuite provides unbreakable and reliable back-end support for thousands of NetSuite customers worldwide to do business in real-time; and NetSuite has achieved unprecedented uptime in the on-demand industry. Prior to joining NetSuite, Mr. Lipscomb founded mBED Software with Evan Goldberg. He was also a director in Oracle's New Media Division. Mr. Lipscomb has been building client/server and Web server software products for seventeen years. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Michael Mankowski covers the application software market for Tier 1 Research with a focus on the adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS). Michael is the lead analyst for Tier 1 Research's SaaS adoption service and serves on the ISV Best Practices Committee for SIIA's SaaS Executive Council. Prior to joining Tier 1 Research, Michael served in various competitive and market intelligence roles at IBM, providing IBM Global Services executives with insights and opinions on both the hosting and consulting markets. Prior to IBM, Michael held a variety of engineering and technical sales positions, ranging from Submarine Design Engineer to Regional Sales Manager. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Catholic University of America and an MBA from Villanova Business School.

Since 2002, Ed Marshall has been the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at OpenAir, an on-demand professional services automation application. OpenAir is used by professional services firms to gain controls and insight on their financial best practices and to track projects, teams, and billable hours for improving employee utilization and to streamline project management -without reliance on unstructured tools such as email, faxes or spreadsheets. OpenAir is a member of salesforce.com's AppExchange network and its application is based on the Software-as-Service (SaaS) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model. Customers include MedImmune (Nasdaq: MEDI); Selectica (Nasdaq: SLTC), Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) and Software AG of Germany. OpenAir has been named a Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 Company, a Finalist in the Software and Information Industry Association CODiE aware competition and a Top 25 Global Service Provider by ASP News.

Jason Maynard is a Software Analyst for Credit Suisse with coverage responsibility for the applications, infrastructure, and systems management segments. In addition to direct coverage responsibility, he serves as group head for the global software research team. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2005, Maynard was the Global Software Coordinator and Senior Software Analyst for Merrill Lynch. In February 2004, Maynard launched the On Demand Index to track and measure the rise of On Demand business models and the trend of Software as a Service. InformationWeek magazine named Maynard to its 2005 Innovators and Influencers list based on his work in the field.

Dan Merriman, President of Chapin Consulting Group, helps SaaS providers significantly improve their ability to retain and grow customers by maximizing the business results enabled by their solutions. For over 20 years, he has helped his clients realize significant business gains through the effective use of business performance management, business intelligence (BI), customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and e-commerce. Dan has also worked for Forrester Research, EDS, and Hewlett-Packard in various consulting, business development, and solution implementation roles.

Dr. Moore currently serves as the Director of Revenue Management Solutions at Softrax Corporation where he consults with senior executives at hundreds of companies on issues of revenue recognition accounting, complex billing and financial management systems. His background includes more than 20 years experience in product strategy and development with a focus on the application of software to critical business issues. He has held management positions at a variety of companies, including Eastman Kodak, Otsuka Electronics, and Bio-Rad. A native of Great Britain, Dr. Moore earned his Ph.D at the University of Alberta and completed post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Frances joined Aria in January 2006 as the Vice President of Marketing. In this role, she is responsible for all demand generation activities and marketing strategy. She has 15+ years of technology marketing know-how with particular expertise in messaging, branding, product marketing, product management, media relations, and overall strategy for new products and markets. In her previous senior level roles with Systems & Computer Technology (SCT) and Liquent, Frances has managed marketing activities for both application software and professional services with gross revenues up to $95 million and annual marketing budgets of up to $8 million.

Wendy has 25 years experience in Disaster Recovery enhancing recoverability for Dresser Industries, ARCO Oil & Gas, NationsBank, and now with Texas Instruments. Active member with Toastmasters international and has the educational designation of Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM). Holds two certifications; she is a Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute and a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) through the Disaster Recovery Institute. Wendy's most recent technical solution for Texas Instruments is patent pending at the US Patent Office.

Responsible for "turnkey" management of product feature, function, and technology deliverables for Symphony Services' clients since 2002. Previously served as Vice President at i2 Technologies, responsible for managing a 120-person development team spanning the U.S., India, and Canada. The team undertook a range of enterprise application developments including order execution/ management, requisitioning, sourcing, auctions, bid/ask exchange, content mgmt, as well as integrations to SAP and Oracle. Prior to i2, was Director of CRM product strategy at PeopleSoft, Software Solutions Manager at Honeywell, and International Sales and Marketing Manager at Siebe (now Invensys). Education: M.B.A., B.S. in Business (City University), D.E.C. in Engineering (Vanier College).

Since 2001, Morris Panner has been CEO of OpenAir, an on-demand professional services automation application. OpenAir is used by professional services firms to gain controls and insight on their financial best practices and to track projects, teams, and billable hours for improving employee utilization and to streamline project management -without reliance on unstructured tools such as email, faxes or spreadsheets. OpenAir is a member of salesforce.com's AppExchange network and its application is based on the Software-as-Service (SaaS) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model. Customers include MedImmune (Nasdaq: MEDI); Selectica (Nasdaq: SLTC), Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) and Software AG of Germany. OpenAir has been named a Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 Company, a Finalist in the Software and Information Industry Association CODiE aware competition and a Top 25 Global Service Provider by ASP News. Panner was previously an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and spent a year fighting narco-terrorism at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Columbia. Before that, he was a Federal Prosecutor in New York City, an M&A attorney and a banker at Lazard Frčres & Co. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Yale, he is on the Board of the Software Division of the SIIA and has been featured in the Boss column of the The New York Times, Forbes and Fast Company.

Neil has 27 years of leadership experience spanning from Program Management to Operations Management of WebEx's Global Infrastructure. At WebEx, Neil's responsibilities included the planning, development, and build out of 3 data centers. In addition, Neil managed 8 Global Data Centers and multiple Colo Partners. Neil has collaborated with many WebEx customers to improve their operational procedures including Disaster Recovery processes by leveraging the use of WebEx services.

M.R. co-founded Sand Hill Group LLC, and has been a strategic advisor to several fast-growing companies. He has held global VP marketing positions at Baan Company, Avalon Software, and Oracle Corporation. M.R. was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and has been named in Forbes' "Midas 100 List" as one of the most influential investors in technology. He holds an MBA from Kent State University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Madras.

Ken Rudin is a veteran of the rapidly growing On Demand / Software as a Service industry, bringing to LucidEra nearly seven years of executive experience with leading On Demand software vendors. As co-founder and CEO of LucidEra, Ken is focused on redefining the reporting and business analytics market by providing a complete Business Intelligence On Demand solution. Before founding LucidEra, Ken held executive positions at Siebel Systems. He created Siebel's CRM OnDemand business unit, and as Vice President and General Manager of that division, he had global responsibility for Siebel's hosted solution. Ken was also the VP and General Manager of Siebel's flagship Sales Force Automation product line. Before that, Ken was VP of Marketing for Siebel Analytics, where he leveraged nearly ten years of analytics experience to help Siebel become the one of the industry's largest providers of analytics applications.

Jason has been with Deloitte Tax for eight years, and he works with a variety of Fortune 500, technology, and closely held corporate clients. Jason has consulted with clients on a variety of benefits issues, including mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, equity compensation, and welfare benefit arrangements.

As CEO of OpSource, Treb Ryan has led the creation of Optimal On Demandsm, an innovative suite of components and services that enables software companies to successfully launch SaaS applications quickly and with minimal up-front expense, regardless of whether they possess the required competencies and in-house resources. Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). Mr. Ryan joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN. Prior to co-founding SiteSmith, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Professional Services for GlobalCenter, a pioneer in the hosting and Internet services marketplace.

Deborah Scharfetter - Vice President of Products, Above All Software Deborah has over 15 years experience designing, implementing, positioning and delivering enterprise software applications. At Above All Software she leads the entire product management and development organization. Deborah was the fourth employee to join The Vantive Corporation in 1991 and was instrumental in designing and delivering its suite of CRM applications and customization toolkit. She was Vice President of Engineering and Chief Architect with Vantive until 1998. Prior to Vantive, Deborah held various technical and software engineering positions at C*ATS Software, Oracle, and Koch Systems.

Chris Schellman is the co-founder and executive vice president of SAS 70 Solutions, Inc. Prior to founding SAS 70 Solutions, Chris was a "Big 4" audit firm executive with responsibilities for providing a broad range of risk consulting services. Chris currently participates on over 40 SAS 70 audit projects each year and is considered one of the nation's leading experts in the area of SAS 70 and COSO-based audits. Although Chris has significant experience in multiple industries, his primary focus has traditionally been directed towards advanced technologies. Chris has performed many SAS 70 audits for companies in the SaaS, ASP, and co-location industries, as well as other emerging technology fields. Additionally, Chris has provided professional services for multiple Global 1000, Fortune 500 and regional companies during the course of his career.

With over sixteen years of management and marketing experience, William Schnabel guides the overall strategic product direction, customer operations and corporate strategies of Vtrenz®, the developer of iMarketing Automation®, an on-demand marketing automation platform. Using a unique combination of skills including software design and development, business process reengineering, business development and strategic marketing, Schnabel has a proven ability to bridge the gap between the capabilities of technology and the marketing needs of businesses. Prior to joining Vtrenz, Schnabel was an executive with Accenture, a leading management-consulting firm, based in San Francisco. Schnabel received a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering and Business Management from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN in addition to a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.

Axel Schultze is a serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Tanooma Corporation. In 1983 he founded Computer 2000 which became the largest European computer distributor, the third largest in the world. In 1996 he founded Infinigate which became one of the largest Internet Solutions providers in Europe. With his experience in indirect sales channels he moved to Silicon Valley and founded BlueRoads Corp. in 2001. Despite the .com crisis he successfully raised 3 rounds of funding and created the most successful Software as a Service based Channel CRM Company. He invented a new method of lead distribution and was granted a patent in 2006. After 5 years experience with Software as a Service he founded Tanooma in 2006 together with his partner Dr. Timothy Chou (former president Oracle on Demand). His mission with Tanooma is to help accelerate growth of the SaaS industry by providing the first "Virtual Economy".

Prashant Shah joined Hummer Winblad in December 2000, where he is a Principal. He has been instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. He also observes a number of these boards. In addition, Prashant is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley, where he is Chair of the Software SIG. Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at eCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

As Vice President of Client Services for Autotask, Mr. Stewart is responsible for training, implementation, customer support and professional services. Adam began his career in 1989 as Manager of Customer Support for Image Systems Technology, a start-up CAD imaging software vendor. Later, as Director of Technical Resources, he helped execute the sale of Image Systems to Softdesk, Inc. At Softdesk, he served as Director of Development Services, where he was responsible for Documentation, Quality Assurance, and Customer Support. He also managed all major software development projects and brought new product versions to market on tight schedules. Adam joined LearnLinc Corporation as Manager of Customer Service in 1996, where he built a world-renowned CS team. Later, as Director of Development Services, he implemented processes and procedures that groomed the company to be sold to Mentergy in 2000. In 2002, he managed the sale of the LearnLinc business to iLinc Communications, where he served as Vice President of Technical Operations for the following two years.

Jan Sysmans, Director of Customer Experience at WebEx Communications, serves on the SIIA SaaS Executive Council as Chairperson of the Marketing Communications Committee. As Director of Customer Experience for WebEx, Mr. Sysmans assesses WebEx services, processes and products from the external perspective -- as seen through the eyes of the customers. One of the biggest challenges to overcome as this Customer Experience advocate is managing the cross-functional changes that need to take place in order to improve and simplify the end-to-end customer experience. As Chairperson of the SaaS Marketing Communications Committee, Mr. Sysmans recently authored a white paper on TCO of SaaS; "A Comprehensive Look at the Total Cost of Ownership of Software Applications".

Joe is the Software Group leader for the Silicon Valley Technology Industry practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP and specializes in serving emerging publicly-held and venture-backed software companies. Joe has more than 25 years of private sector, audit, and consulting experience in several industries including technology and manufacturing. Joe's experience includes successfully assisting numerous companies with initial and secondary public offerings, '34 Act filings, and spin-offs and divestitures, as well as responding to SEC comments. Joe consults with his clients on revenue recognition policies, strategic relationships, and other transactions. His clients have ranged from start-ups to multi-billion dollar companies.

Chris Tebo is the Chief Technology Officer and architect of Fortiva's managed email archiving solution. Chris has been actively engaged in software product development for the past 15 years, and has been focused on developing highly-scalable outsourced solutions for enterprises. Chris is instrumental in developing Fortiva's unique DoubleBlind Encryption™ technology, which stores all data in encrypted form so unauthorized users cannot access the content of archived data. With this technology, Fortiva customers retain exclusive access to the encryption keys allowing them to instantly search and retrieve archived data without worry about managing the storage infrastructure. Chris also architected Fortiva's grid-storage and distributed search architecture that ensures real-time search and retrieval, regardless of the size of the archive. Prior to co-founding Fortiva, Chris was the lead architect at FloNetwork, a leading email marketing service provider whose technology formed the basis of DoubleClick's Dartmail platform after its acquisition in 2001. During this time, Chris developed the email marketing ASP infrastructure that serviced over 300 clients and achieved production volumes of 1 billion emails sent per month and daily user transactions of 5 million per day. Chris earned his Bachelors of Science and Arts in Computer Science, Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Toronto.

As CEO, Torto leads the Centive executive team and is responsible for corporate strategy, management and growth as a SaaS solution provider. Prior to joining Centive, Torto served as president and CEO of InCert Software, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to InCert, Torto served as president and CEO at Swan International Inc., a European-based software provider of application delivery and self-healing software. Torto led the company to a successful IPO on the European EASDAQ in April of 1999. Torto graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in mass communications and marketing from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Philippe Vincent is a Partner with Accenture’s High Technology Strategy practice, and a thought leader in its Software practice. He advises software vendors across a broad array of strategic market facing and operational issues. Philippe also focuses across the High Tech industry on the relationship between IT and Business. He has authored points of views and articles on a variety of high tech issues. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a Diplome d’Ingenieur from ENSAM, Paris, France. He is based in Palo Alto, California.

Brian Vile is Vice President of Distribution Solutions. He is responsible for defining Macrovision’s digital distribution channel strategy. A software and technology industry veteran with ten years’ senior management and product strategy experience, he was previously responsible for Macrovision’s installation tools and the information publishing products. Mr. Vile led the due diligence, integration and management of the ZeroG and eMeta acquisitions. Prior to Macrovision, he was Vice President of Product Management at Information Resources, and held high-visibility roles at Hewlett Packard and Motorola. Mr. Vile has an MBA from Indiana University and a BS in Engineering from Lehigh University.

As Chief Technology Officer, Sal Visca is responsible for the Business Objects technology strategy, service oriented architecture, and roadmap, including the Business Intelligence Platform and the company's on demand, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Previously, Visca was CTO & VP Engineering at Marqui, a SaaS provider of Content and Communications Management solutions. Prior to Marqui, Visca has held the positions of Co-President, and CTO & VP Engineering at Infowave Software, a leading provider of wireless computing technology. Visca spent more than 12 years with IBM in various positions and has led strategic initiatives for IBM in e-learning, digital library, Telehealth/TeleMedicine, e-business and e-commerce web applications. Visca holds an honors B.Sc. degree from the University of Western Ontario in Computer Science.

As the editorial director and senior vice president for Ziff-Davis, Vizard sets the strategic editorial direction for the enterprise group at Ziff-Davis that includes eWeek, CIO Insight, Baseline, Channel Insider, Publish and Microsoft Watch. Vizard has served as the Editor-in-Chief of CMP Media's Computer Resellers News in addition to holding the same Editor-in-Chief title at International Data Group's InfoWorld. Vizard has also had extensive editorial management experience over an 18-year career that has included management positions with PC Week, ComputerWorld, Digital Review and Electronic Buyers' News. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Boston University.